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Letters Patent No. 73,980, dated February 4, 1888;

IMPROVE-DUOMPOUND FOR nnsrnonue Beans IN OOL.

TO ALL WHOM IT CONCERN: I

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. JUBB, of the town of Norwalk, countyof Fairfield, and State of Gonnec. tieut, have invented a new and useful Compound for Destroyingthe Burrs in Wool, and for neutralizing the effects of the acids employed in the operation, and the final extracting the acids and impurities after the burrs are destroyed; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description of the ingredients used to efi'ect, the same.

Theilnature of, my invention consists in the-compounding, mixing, and using the Within-named ingredients for eradicating the burrs from wool.

v To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe me same.

The following are the ingredients for the compound for destroying theburrs: Sulphuric acid, one hundred parts, by weight; refined saltpetre, two parts, by weight, dissolved in the proper and suflieient quantity of water for the purpose, regulated by the condition. and nature of the wool.

' After the hard, knotty nature of the burrs is destroyed,'which will be bythe aforesaid compound, and they are reduced to a state of powder or pasty substance, I then use-the following ingredients, compounded together, which will neutr'alizethe injurious eflects of the acids employed, and completely cleanse the wool from the same and all other impurities, rendering the wool bleached to an excellent whiteness, without the least injury to the fibre: Snl-ammoniac, four parts, in weight; soda-ash, thirty part's',in weight; 'whale-oil soap, ten parts, in weight; lime, five parts, in weight, dissolvedin the necessary quantity of water tp produce'the desired efi'ect.

The utility of my compound for cleaning the wool from burrs and other impurities is inits economy; also in its freedom fromthe excessive and'oflensive smell when in operation, and the complete extermination of the burrs without the least injury to the fibre of the Wool.

What-I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent,'is

The use and combination of the ingredients, as herein described, for destroying theburrs in wool and bleaching the wool,'substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

W. H. J UBB.

Witnesses:

WM. VINE, Josnrn F. Foo'rn. 

